Belgian online casinos: comparison and audits

By Arthur D · Published on 26 August 2026 | Updated on 8 September 2026

The figure says the essential thing. Belgium’s licensed market is small and closely regulated. Right beside it, an unlicensed zone is growing fast and rebuilding itself faster than it can be blocked.

So this page does two jobs. It compares licensed operators on verifiable criteria, and it teaches you to recognise the ones that are not licensed. You will not find a ranking by bonus size here.

What the blocked sites record reveals

The Commission publishes every site it has had blocked, with the decision date. I read the whole record. Three things stand out, and none of them appears on the usual comparison sites.

The pace has increased tenfold

Between 2012 and 2020, the Commission blocked a handful of sites a year. Since 2021 the counter has climbed steeply.

2012-20 82

2021 127

2022 97

2023 59

2024 104

2025 159

2026 200

*Decisions recorded up to 17 July 2026, the latest published update. The year is not over, so the total will exceed 2025.

A blocked site returns under another name

The record is full of duplicates. One brand appears under several addresses, blocked on the same day or a few weeks apart, with a prefix or a number added. Roughly one blocked address in two belongs to a family of two domains or more. Some brands run to nine.

That explains the rising counter, but it matters to you directly. A site closed yesterday can reappear tomorrow at an almost identical address. The name proves nothing.

A .be address is no guarantee

This is the most surprising finding. At least nineteen .be domains appear among the blocked sites. Several closely resemble the names of well-known Belgian brands, with a hyphen or an extra word.

Remember this: the .be extension says nothing about a site’s legal status, and neither does a familiar name. Only the licence number and its presence in the official register count.

How to recognise a licensed site

The good news is that a licensed operator is easy to identify. Belgian law requires several notices in the footer and in the terms and conditions, which can be read before signing up. I checked that they were present on the sites in this comparison.

Element	Where to find it	Finding
Licence number	Footer and terms and conditions	Present
“21+” logo	Footer	Present
Gaming Commission logo	Footer	Present
“Play Legally” label	Footer	Present
Statutory addiction warning	Footer	Present
Responsible gambling page	Menu or footer	Present at most
Weekly deposit cap	Terms and conditions, adjustable in the account	Provided
Identity verification	Sign-up via itsme or manual entry	Mandatory

One operator in the comparison has no responsible gambling page reachable from its menu: its tools sit in the terms and conditions and the help centre. The law does not require a dedicated page, but without one the protections are harder to find.

Three Belgian habits that do not lie

Beyond the required notices, the licensed market shares habits so consistent that they serve as markers in themselves. Every operator in this comparison accepts Bancontact and offers sign-up through itsme. All of them publish their site in French and Dutch, often in English too.

A site addressing the Belgian public without any of these falls outside the norm, and that alone is reason to pause.

Five reasons to leave a site within ten seconds

• A welcome bonus is offered. Sign-up promotions have been banned in Belgium since March 2020. The clearest sign of all.
• Credit cards are accepted. Licensed platforms take debit only.
• Sign-up opens at 18. The Belgian minimum is 21.
• No licence number in the footer, or one that cannot be found in the register.
• No Commission logo and no statutory warning.

If in doubt, the Gaming Commission publishes both the licence register and the record of blocked sites. Both are free and updated regularly.

What the licence register shows

Belgium currently has 9 A+ licences and 49 B+ licences. The figure looks simple, but it misleads anyone who stops there.

First, a licence is not a site, and 58 licences do not make 58 independent casinos. I read the register in full to count the real sets: the result is behind the brands.

Second, the date in the register is not an opening date. It records an administrative decision, which may be a first grant or simply the renewal of an old file.

Finally, the number itself is informative, because they are issued in chronological order. It is the only genuinely reliable indicator of seniority, and it is what I use to order the comparison below.

Finally, the file number says nothing about a site’s age: it designates a venue, not a date. What is informative is the term granted, and I read all fifty-eight licences to see which ones are genuinely new.

The licensed operators compared

Fifteen of the fifty-eight operators licensed in Belgium, grouped by licence type. The list grows with each audit.

What this comparison already shows

Two operators out of fifteen hold an A+ licence, the other thirteen a B+. This is not a quality ranking. A+ is tied to a land based casino, B+ to a gaming arcade, and that mainly determines what may be offered online: more table games and live play under A+, more slots and dice games under B+.

What I add to the register

The register says who is licensed, nothing more. I then go further, operator by operator, with a Trust Score out of 100. Seven criteria are rated and weighted according to what they genuinely protect for a player, with licensing alone accounting for a quarter.

The full scale, the sources used and a complete worked example are set out in the method applied to every audit. The “Audit” column in the comparison shows where I stand, and all my audit entries are gathered in one place.

My verdict on the Belgian market

The real risk for a Belgian player is not among licensed operators. They are few, monitored, and display what the law requires of them. The risk sits right next door, in an unlicensed zone that grows every year and imitates the official market ever more closely, down to .be addresses and familiar sounding names. Checking a licence number takes thirty seconds. It is the single most worthwhile action on this entire site.

Arthur D, author of CasinAudit

It is also why my scores do not reward minimum compliance. Meeting it is a condition of operating, not an achievement. What sets an operator apart is what it does beyond that. That “beyond” can be measured: quantified withdrawal terms, the reply time on a complaint, the real duration of a self-exclusion. The detail appears in what makes an online casino reliable in Belgium.

Before you sign up, stay in control

A regulated site reduces risk without removing it. Two habits are worth more than any comparison.

First: as soon as you open an account, set your deposit limit below the legal cap of 200 euros per seven day period. That cap applies per site, not overall, and it appears in the terms you can read before signing up.

Second: know that exclusion exists before you need it. It runs through the EPIS register and is requested online from the Gaming Commission. It takes effect immediately and blocks every operator at once.

If gambling takes up too much room, free and anonymous support is listed on my dedicated page.

Frequently asked questions

What this page does not tell you

It names no winner. The comparison sets facts side by side, it does not rank them, and an operator that excels at live play may be average on slots. Nor does it say whether a site pays out quickly until its audit entry is published.

Finally, some links on this site earn me a commission, disclosed where that applies. It changes no score, no order and no warning. A partner that scores badly keeps that score.